An online notebook
Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite, give it a 5 star rating and embed it in your own blogs and social … Keep reading
John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at http://bit.ly/fkxik), is nothing less than the ‘mass amateurisation of publishing’. What’s happening is a radical shift … Keep reading
Simon Wakeman poses a potentially controversial question on his blog: One idea that’s been playing on my mind for the past few days is whether a council needs a website at all. Initially this might seem like complete heresy. Surely a public sector body providing services to local residents needs a website to help them … Keep reading
Akismet is a plugin for WordPress (and a few other platforms) which helps combat the problem of comment spam. That when ne’erdowells come on your blog and post nonsense comments in the hope pick click the links in them to buy some viagra, or invest in a Nigerian lottery winning syndicate. Dealing with this stuff … Keep reading
Stuff I have bookmarked for October 15th through October 16th: Cumbrian Newspapers Group boosts hyperlocal websites – "Independent regional publisher Cumbrian Newspapers Group is rolling out a series of interactive websites to allow community group to create their own pages alongside newspaper content." BAD08 Birmingham Social Media Surgery: provisional results – Nick Booth's summary of … Keep reading